| Definitions of 'faculty' |
Wordnet |
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1. (noun) faculty, mental faculty, module
one of the inherent cognitive or perceptual powers of the mind
2. (noun) staff, faculty
the body of teachers and administrators at a school
"the dean addressed the letter to the entire staff of the university"
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| Definitions of 'faculty' |
Webster 1913 Dictionary |
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1. (noun) faculty
ability to act or perform, whether inborn or cultivated; capacity for any natural function; especially, an original mental power or capacity for any of the well-known classes of mental activity; psychical or soul capacity; capacity for any of the leading kinds of soul activity, as knowledge, feeling, volition; intellectual endowment or gift; power; as, faculties of the mind or the soul
2. (noun) faculty
special mental endowment; characteristic knack
3. (noun) faculty
power; prerogative or attribute of office
4. (noun) faculty
privilege or permission, granted by favor or indulgence, to do a particular thing; authority; license; dispensation
5. (noun) faculty
a body of a men to whom any specific right or privilege is granted; formerly, the graduates in any of the four departments of a university or college (Philosophy, Law, Medicine, or Theology), to whom was granted the right of teaching (profitendi or docendi) in the department in which they had studied; at present, the members of a profession itself; as, the medical faculty; the legal faculty, ect
6. (noun) faculty
the body of person to whom are intrusted the government and instruction of a college or university, or of one of its departments; the president, professors, and tutors in a college
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| Definitions of 'faculty' |
U.S. National Library of Medicine |
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1. faculty
The teaching staff and members of the administrative staff having academic rank in an educational institution.
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